noun
- Reddish-brown wood and lumber from heartwood of the sweet gum tree used to make furniture.
- synonyms: satin walnut, hazelwood, red gum
- Aromatic exudate from the sweet gum tree.
- synonyms: liquidambar
- A North American tree of the genus Liquidambar having prickly spherical fruit clusters and fragrant sap.
- synonyms: sweet gum tree, bilsted, red gum, American sweet gum, Liquidambar styraciflua
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